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U of A board approves controversial new hiring policy, which removes EDI
The University of Alberta board has approved a controversial hiring policy that eliminates equity, diversity and inclusion. It comes after significant community pushback.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/university-of-alberta-edi-hiring-policy-9.7145475?cmp=rss

CBC Edmonton 3d ago

Global News Lethbridge Mar 18

Edmonton clinical trial offers hope to people suffering ‘most severe pains known to mankind’
A new U of A clinical trial is testing ultra-early Gamma Knife surgery to stop trigeminal neuralgia before permanent brain changes and years of devastating pain.
#Health #GammaKnife #GammaKnifeSurgery #HealthMattersEdmonton
https://globalnews.ca/news/11733003/edmonton-trial-gamma-knife-severe-condition/

Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽Mar 5

The UofA backtracking and smearing of DEI has harmed its reputation. Reputation is everything for universities (and ever inflating tuition).

"In an emailed statement, a university spokesperson reiterated to CBC News that the proposed policy change was carefully designed to stay compliant with federal requirements.

But Amir Attaran, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, doesn’t buy that.
“I trust the federal government to make sure the U of A does the right thing and keeps its EDI program in place,” he said."

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7114756

#UofA #AbPoli #FascismCreep #CdnPoli

Federal research body in talks with U of A to ensure compliance with EDI requirements | CBC News

Federal government lawyers have contacted the University of Alberta to make sure it's meeting equity requirements for the country’s most prestigious professorships. It comes after the university proposed to remove equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) from its hiring policy.

CBC

CBC Edmonton Mar 5

Federal research body in talks with U of A to ensure compliance with EDI requirements
Federal government lawyers have contacted the University of Alberta to make sure it's meeting equity requirements for the country’s most prestigious professorships. It comes after the university proposed to remove equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) from its hiring policy.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/federal-research-university-of-alberta-compliance-edi-requirements-9.7114756?cmp=rss

A-Dub 🥝Feb 10

this is purely ideologically motivated bullshit.

"The University of Alberta is proposing to eliminate Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) from its hiring policy."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/university-of-alberta-removes-edi-from-hiring-policy-9.7076210

#UofA #EDI

U of A looks to remove EDI from hiring policy | CBC News

The University of Alberta is proposing to eliminate Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) from its hiring policy, a year after the school initially said it was moving away from the term.

CBC

CFLange Jan 24

Join us on Thursday January 29th from 3-4pm in CAB 239 for our inaugural ISSET Seminar "Bioengineered Functional Cartilages and Mechanical Unloading of Simulated Microgravity in Osteoarthritis Research" by Professor Adetola Adesida. Dr. Adesida studies the effect of simulated spaceflight microgravity facilitated by parabolic flights on tissue-engineered cartilage. There even is a chance of the Adesida team gaining a slot in the ISS to conduct research! #spacemedresearch #isset #uofa #yegspace

vga256 Jan 21

so let me get this straight: it cost us $27M to switch from No Name brand to Becel?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/yellow-no-more-butterdome-makeover-to-renew-pavilion-in-green-and-gold-9.7054920

#yeg #uofa

vga256 Dec 23

those who went to the u of a in the 90s and 2000s will remember this staple of HUB, SUB and the tory building

every morning you'd see a long snaking lineup of bleary eyed folks waiting for their day to start. til, it was the first campus location to serve "european-style" coffee.

sadly, it closed in 2013 after aramark foods took over campus and effectively forced it out of business.

https://globalnews.ca/news/447336/end-of-an-era-as-java-jive-outlets-at-u-of-a-set-to-close/

rip my old friend. you made a lot of grouchy 8am students/faculty lives liveable for decades.

#yeg #UofA #alberta

ReDATA, University of Arizona Dec 12

🧬🩹Did you know a molecule called Sonic Hedgehog (#Shh) helps heal stomach wounds like ulcers? Jayati Chakrabarti, Martha Dua-Awereh, Michael Schumacher, Amy C. Engevik and Yana Zavros found that Shh signals immune cells to move to injured stomach tissue, and without this signal, healing slows dramatically. Learn more from their dataset and article at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.16798171 and https://doi.org/10.1038/s41536-021-00196-2. Image: Chakrabarti et al. (2022). CC BY 4.0 #OpenData #OpenScience #medicine #UofA